Glass Case

Crazy but we are already halfway through the lecture phase of the school. I can’t believe how quickly the first 6 weeks have gone by. We have three more weeks of lecture then we do part of our local outreach “Schoolies” then our last 3 weeks of lectures. After that we will do the other part of our local outreach “Impact Summer” then off to Turkey! Each week I have been learning so much. Here are some highlights:

Week 1: We activate things with are words. What am I using my words to create? I am the chosen and adopted child of God. Never let anything someone has done to  me be bigger then what Jesus did for me.

Week 2: Was on hearing Gods voice, a bit hard to put into words but I will try..God is always speaking to us in many many different ways. Are we listening? We should know his voice better than our own mothers, best friends, sibling, voices.

Week 3: Evangelism is all about LOVE. It’s about relating and not a transaction. There is a difference between being an evangelist and evangelism.  This week was amazing I really enjoyed it, lectures were challenging and I loved the speaker this week. * I have loved them all but really enjoyed Dave*

Week 4: Probably the most challenging week in thought for me. I was in and out lectures for various reasons which made it a bit hard to track the content. The main notes I have are we are called to live a holy life. We are only as holy as out thought life. When you hear truth but don’t apply it, it leads to a hard heart. Godly sorrow leads to repentance, worldly sorrow leads to regret and trying to find ways to do it again w/ consequence. Sin is short term fulfillment with long term bondage. God asks for short term sacrifice in exchange lifelong freedom. We ended the week with 6 hours of ministry time, which was beautiful.

This week is Identity and Destiny, I loved this week on my school and hope our girls love it as well. Next week we will travel north to the Gold Coast base and join with them for a week on Lordship and Fear of the Lord with Mark Parker who is a legend in YWAM.

These photo are from the lounge wall on base. The triangles go all around the room and are a count down till our Turkey outreach. 76 days! The taped off area is our "family wall" we just put pictures of our community in it makes it nice a homey for all of us. :)

The Great Provider

This is just a quick update.

Where to start the story..the beginning I guess will do.

Oct 10th Mel and I went to Flight Center to look at tickets for Turkey. We wanted to look at them now and hopefully book them while the cost was not to bad, and have time to get outreach fees in. We spent a good amount of time chatting with the travel agent Vanessa to get the best deal. By the end of the conversation we had tickets booked with one small hiccup we had to pay for them by the 15th or we would lose the great flights that we had. It was already after 2.30pm so we needed...

20,498.00 AUD in a little over 4 days

We went home and told the team and asked them to call/e-mail their parents/pastors to transfer funds. Sounds easy enough but most transfers take 3-4 days sometimes up to 5. Also it was Canadian Thanks-giving over the weekend so the banks toko a long weekend. Myself and another girl were making daily visits to the ATM (which sometimes was not nice to me). I had complete peace that it all would come in, but still we were praying. 

Monday morning we still did not have all the funds we needed. I still have faith that God would provide for the flights.

Today at lunch out lovely base director announced to us all that....

We all have flights to Turkey!!!


This is a season of learning and knowing in my heart without a doubt that God will provide for me when he has called me somewhere. Since my arrival time and time again He is showing me that I don't have to worry He has it all.

I hope you are well!

Adventure location is.....

I know you all have been waiting with great patience to find out where our adventure location is. I am very excited to let you all know that we will be going to…. TURKEY!

 It was a blast telling the girls. We printed out an unmarked map of Turkey cut it into a puzzle and the words “your” “adventure” “is” individually and stuffed it all in balloons. The girls then had to pop all of them I think out of 25 balloons 16 had papers in them, then had to put it all together. We had morning tea right after and I make a cake to resemble the Turkish flag. Watching them figure it out was like watching children open presents on Christmas morning.

This week our topic is “Hearing the Voice of God”. It is a pivotal week for the school. God speaks to everyone, we just have to tune into his voice and when applicable speak out to an individual or group what he has said. The girls are learning how God speaks to them in different ways and he cares about everything going on in their life. It may be through a feeling, or a picture, or an audible voice.

Prayer/praise points:

• Provision for the staff for outreach fees. 4,000 each.
•  Praise God all our students have outreach fees.
• Stronger relationships within our school and the base.
• Clear direction for me as I seek Gods will in certain areas.
• For the July school that is currently on outreach in Papa New Guinea.

Here is our school :)